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I'd be curious to know what the actual NAS performance is like (IOPS, latency, etc). Looked into building a DIY NAS a few years ago, but decided to buy (a Syno
by dervjd 2y ago
I'd be curious to know what the actual NAS performance is like (IOPS, latency, etc).
Looked into building a DIY NAS a few years ago, but decided to buy (a Synology DS1618+) instead. I'm sure I could've saved a few hundred rolling my own, but having purpose build hardware + commercially supported software is worth the cost if it's data that you care about (versus something like storage for 'linux iso files').
I actually had an issue a few months back where my storage pool suddenly degraded and went read only. Was able to send a full diagnostics/log dump to Synology, and their support engineers took over to diagnose the issue. If I rolled my own, I'd be the one spending hours either figuring it out myself while stressing about losing data, and/or rebuilding entirely from my offsite backup.
- LanternLight83 2y agoI built my own NAS (six drives in a Mini-ATX case) about three years ago. Creating a custom init system and immutable distro on it has been my primary hobby since, and I expect to be finished within another ~two years, by which point the drives will be reaching their life expectancies. On the plus side I'm pretty sure this is a me problem, and that anyone else would have stuck with Proxmox and had their siht together in 3-6 weeks-- but maybe that person would also be the type to prefer a Synology in the first place :p I'd recommend both routes, but primarily synology unless you know you wanna geek out w/ it
- phendrenad2 2y agoSounds cool! Be sure to post on HN about it when done. ;)